Communication Associate Professor CT, Patrick Dodge, received a commendation from the National Communication Association for his work with the "Task Force to Foster International Collaborations in the Age of Globalization," involving many research and pedagogy based projects, as well as co-planning several international conferences with the Communication University of China.

Communication Assistant Professor Mia Fischer received the 2017 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the LGBTQ Division of the National Communication Association for her 2016 doctoral dissertation, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State" (completed at the University of Minnesota, advised by Drs. Mary Vavrus and...

The Department of Communication’s Professor Stephen Hartnett, Associate Professor and Chair Lisa Keranen, and (past ICB Instructor) Donovan Conley published their edited scholarly book Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization (2017, Michigan State University Press). Imagining China explores how U.S. and Chinese officials, scholars, and activists...

Hamilton Bean , Associate Professor in Communication, has published a chapter in the latest edition of New Agendas in Communication, Strategic Communication . This series, published by Routledge, brings together groups of emerging scholars to tackle important interdisciplinary themes that demand new scholarly attention and reach broadly across the communication...

Sarah K. Fields , Associate Professor of Communication, recently published Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation and discusses how sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. She’s also a go to speaking on her research in the...

The CU Denver Association of Lecturers and Instructors (UCDALI) is pleased to announce the recipients of the University of Colorado Denver CLAS Non-Tenure Track Faculty Professional Development grants for spring 2017, selected from a pool of impressive candidates. Masoud Asidi-Zeybadadi and Richard Geyer , Department of Physics, will continue work...

The ICB Communication Department celebrated with its largest-ever end of year banquet (75+ attendees) and Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society Induction ceremony, now in its 10th year. Many of the honors students (and others) are headed off to elite graduate schools next year—including NYU, Leeds, Kyoto, USC, and CUC. Students...

At the Department of Communication’s seventeenth annual Communication Days celebration, the Department welcomed more than 15 outside experts and guest speakers to classes, ranging from the Nation’s sports editor Dave Zirin to singer-songwriter Josh Fuson and the LGBTQ Resource Center’s Xajés Martinez, and honored outstanding achievements. 2017 Department of Communication...

“Thank you to John and Nichel Mulstay, Dean Pamela Jansma, and our colleagues in the Communications Department for their generous support of our students. We are very proud to be working with the next generation of leaders, they will keep hope alive for us all,” says Chair Donna Martinez of...

On March 3, Stephen J. Hartnett , Professor of Communication, and Lisa Keranen , Associate Professor and Chair of Communication, led an 8-hour workshop for 50 participants in the Roaring Forks Leadership Program, in Basalt, CO. Under the header of "Civic Engagement and Community Leadership," Hartnett and Keranen divided the...